Virginia Mantouvalou
@vmantouvalou
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The first copies of my book on Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights are here!
Official publication date is the 10th of March but the book can be pre-ordered on the
@OUPLaw
website. I’ll share discount codes soon.
#WorldBookDay
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Happy, nervous, excited and relieved to have submitted my manuscript for publication to Oxford University Press.
The book is called Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights and will be published by OUP in early 2023.
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This is the cover of my book on Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights, coming out with
@OUPLaw
in early 2023.
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A UK Government spokesperson said, according to the BBC: 'The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world'.
This is just not true, and there are too many examples to illustrate this.
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Very happy to have just signed a contract with OUP for my book ‘Structural Injustice, Workers’ Rights and Human Rights’ to be published next year
@OUPAcademic
Grateful to the British Academy too for the support through a mid-career fellowship.
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Congratulations to the brilliant Dr Natalie Sedacca of
@UCLLaws
who successfully defended her PhD thesis today on the human rights of domestic workers -
with the great
@TNovitz
and
@colmocinneide
as examiners.
#ProudSupervisor
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I am delighted to announce a new project on which I've been working as co-editor with my brilliant colleague
@thebigbogg
.
Today we are launching a new book series in 'Law and Social Justice' with
@BrisUniPress
.
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This month I'll be Visiting Professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, which I was really looking forward to but it will be a remote visit in the end (with a few online events).
I'll mark the visit by using a different chair at home and having some Belgian chocolates.
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Our textbook on ‘Human Rights at Work’ has a beautiful cover.
My co-authors, Alan Bogg, Hugh Collins and Anne Davies, and I are making good progress on it and looking forward to using it in our courses soon!
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Our new book on the Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law is out!
Co-edited with Hugh Collins
@OxfordLawFac
and Gillian Lester
@ColumbiaLaw
@UCLLaws
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Just finished my paper on ‘Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work’. It will be published in a book on Structural Injustice, coedited by
@MaeveMckeown
& Jude Browne for OUP.
I was fortunate to participate in a brilliant workshop last year. Here’s my abstract.
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Landmark judgment of the South African Constitutional Court on the rights and dignity of domestic workers under the Constitution.
It is about their exclusion from social security rights - discusses intersectional discrimination & dignity of the workers.
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The first chapter of my book, Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights, is available open access by
@OUPLaw
You can access it here:
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Just submitted to
@UCLpress
the manuscript of Structural Injustice and the Law, co-edited with
@JoWolffBSG
.
Based on a conference hosted
@UCLLaws
in 2022, it contains contributions by a brilliant group of scholars. Much looking forward to the publication.
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I wrote a piece for the
@labour_blog
on ‘Pay for Work in Prison’
People in prison spend a lot time working, sometimes for private, profit-making entities, and they are paid extremely little. This is wrong.
via
@labour_blog
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Fantastic inaugural lecture in a packed lecture theatre by my colleague, Professor
@lawvaughan
@UCLLaws
.
Many congratulations, Steven!
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Zoom group meeting highlight: A colleague was speaking and I was telling him repeatedly that he's on mute (quite pleased with myself that I noticed it).
Then I realised that I was also on mute.
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Uber drivers are workers. Their working time is when they log into the app and not just during rides with customers. This is important for calculating their entitlement to the national minimum wage, which is paid per hour.
Great news for worker rights today from the UKSC.
And, HUGELY IMPORTANT, UKSC also upholds ET findings on working time - not limited to passenger rides, but whenever logged into the app.
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I am thrilled to have joined the editorial board of the Stanford Studies in Human Rights of Stanford University Press.
Here is a description of the series. Do get in touch if you have suitable projects.
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Just revised the reading list for my LLM course 'Human Rights at Work'
@UCLLaws
(together with
@JohnHendyQC
and
@RonanMcCrea
for two seminars).
I set up the course in 2011, and every year that I teach it I enjoy it more.
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Very special day
@UCLLaws
marking the graduation of students, including two labour law/human rights law PhD stars:
Dr
@H_Dhorajiwala
and Dr
@nataliesedacca
(pictured below with Dr Grower too).
#ProudFormerSupervisor
We missed you
@N_Countouris
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Landmark judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the criminalisation of begging as a violation of article 8 (private life) of the Convention.
Judgment Lacatus v. Switzerland - sanction imposed for begging on the public highway violated the Convention
#ECHR
#CEDH
#ECHRpress
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The Modern Law Review made my recent article free to access for two weeks:
‘Welfare-to-Work, Structural Injustice and Human Rights’:
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A friend gave this to me on the day of my Inaugural Lecture at UCL in December 2019 - an image of ‘the London University’.
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Living in the streets is not a 'lifestyle choice'. People who are homeless come from disadvantaged and poor backgrounds, and have often experienced trauma (including abuse and neglect) early in their lives:
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4
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For example, here I discuss how Universal Credit, one of the harshest welfare conditionality schemes in the world, forces people into exploitative work and in work poverty (I can share a copy if you can't access it):
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Very happy to share that we have appointed the brilliant
@ubhoola62
, former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, as Visiting Professor
@UCLLaws
.
I look forward to our collaboration and I know our students will be thrilled.
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Great outcome for domestic workers who are employed by diplomats. Good to see the Supreme Court citing Marx too.
Congratulations to the team, including my
@ucllaws
colleague
@TomRHickman
who intervened for
@Kalayaan
Judgment has been handed down this morning in the case of Basfar (Respondent) v Wong (Appellant) - UKSC 2020/0155
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We just advertised a number of Lectureships in Law (Assistant Professor positions)
@UCLLaws
.
Check them out here and consider applying:
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Nice to see this book is out - a group of great scholars writing about Social Justice and the World of Work, edited by Langille and
@TrebilcockAnne
My chapter is on ‘Restrictive Visa Schemes and Global Labour Justice’.
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It was truly special to have so many colleagues, students, friends and the brilliant speakers to discuss and challenge me on my book Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights.
It felt like my viva
@LSELaw
a few years ago, and I enjoyed every second of it. Thank you
@DrTomPoole
Wonderful to see
@vmantouvalou
@LSELaw
in conversation with Niki Lacey, Anne Phillips, Hugh Collins,
@DrTomPoole
(and a packed roomful) on the subject of her new book Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights
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I just published a blog post
@labour_blog
on
Human Rights for Working Prisoners
via
@wordpressdotcom
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Two days of fantastic discussions with colleagues from different disciplines
@UCLLaws
. Our plan is to publish a book on the topic next year.
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Alan Bogg (
@thebigbogg
), Hugh Collins, Anne Davies and I submitted Written Evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights for the inquiry on 'Human Rights at Work'.
In the evidence, we cover the issues the Committee is exploring. It's published here:
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I just posted on SSRN my paper 'Legal Construction of Structures of Exploitation', which is part of the book I co-edited on the Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law
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The lower the external supervision of the UK's record on labour and other human rights, the better it is for the Government, as they regularly show by ignoring and questioning international standards. But they absolutely cannot claim to be a standard-setter.
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Yes, the UCL Law Faculty made available a monthly allowance for childcare (once permitted) during the last schools' closure. It's all very challenging for those with caring responsibilities but this was important support.
@commentator01
@ucl
Was just discussing this today. I understand
@ucl
also provided funds for childcare once this was permitted with a view to ensuring women were not disadvantaged. Setting an excellent example and it doesn't go unnoticed
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Just realised that this September it is 10 years since
@jeff_a_king
,
@RonanMcCrea
, Alex Mills and I started working at UCL. A great and challenging 10 years with special colleagues. We can mark the anniversary tonight.
A friend gave this to me on the day of my Inaugural Lecture at UCL in December 2019 - an image of ‘the London University’.
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'Freedom of Association & the Right to Strike: Towards an ICJ Resolution?' Join us
@UCLLaws
with panel of experts on request by ILO for ICJ advisory opinion:
Lord Hendy -UCL, Old Square
@TNovitz
-Bristol
@MPaparinskis
-UCL, International Law Commission
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Very much looking forward to welcoming Lord Hendy today, Honorary Professor at UCL, for an LLM seminar on ‘Freedom of Association and The Right to Strike’.
@JohnHendyQC
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Productive oral evidence session of Joint Committee on Human Rights on Human Rights at Work.
Photo with my co-panelists Kate Roberts
@FocusOnLabour
& Alex Millbrook
@Kalayaan
- taken by Director of Labour Market Enforcement
@UKDirectorLME
after her insightful evidence session.
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Just finished an incredible two day workshop on ‘Prison Labour in Europe’
@UCLLaws
with brilliant speakers. It was a true delight to host it & start an important discussion that we’ll continue.
Thank you to all participants, and to
@UCL_Global
and
@ModernLRev
for funding!
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Today I taught my last tutorials of the year. I found that I got to know the students well and had great discussions despite being on zoom.
A particularly memorable moment was the day I used an ironing board as a desk for my laptop when working from home.
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In a few days I am speaking about my research at a secondary school. I think it’s the second most challenging talk for me this far.
The most challenging one was to talk about my research to primary school children.
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I wrote an entry on the Right to Work for the Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy:
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I wrote a piece on ‘Labour Rights’ for the Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights, co-edited by Malcolm Langford and Katie Young, with a brilliant list of authors and topics.
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Special issue on 'Social Media and Employment' of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations:
I have an article:
'"I Lost my Job Over a Facebook Post - Was that Fair?" Discipline and Dismissal for Social Media Activity'
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In June a group of us from the editorial committee of the Modern Law Review held an information session for female academics on 'Publishing in the MLR'.
The video has been viewed over 700 times & colleagues say that they find it useful.
Check it out:
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I am very much looking forward to giving the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law Annual Lecture at the University of Southampton next month.
The topic is ‘Structural Injustice, Precarious Work and Human Rights’:
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The recording of our excellent event
@ucllaws
'Freedom of Association and the Right to Strike: Towards an ICJ Resolution?' is available here:
@N_Countouris
@TNovitz
@MPaparinskis
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On 25 January, 4-6pm, we have the great philosopher Sally Haslanger on 'How to Change a Social Structure'
@UCLLaws
. Very excited to be co-hosting this event of the UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy:
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My piece ‘Structural Injustice and the Human Rights of Workers’ is in the new issue of Current Legal Problems.
It also includes pieces by
@tarunkhaitan
, Keith Ewing and others.
Pleased to see the publication of (2020) 73
@UCLLaws
@OUPLaw
Current Legal Problems volume, w very fine pieces by among others
@vmantouvalou
@tarunkhaitan
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Melike v Turkey: dismissal of public sector employee for social media activity violates article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of expression).
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My new book, Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights, was just published online for everyone with an Oxford Scholarship Online subscription. It can be browsed here:
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Alan Bogg discussed the Trade Union Act in this piece arguing that it is authoritarian and repressive
@thebigbogg
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We're often very negative about referee 2 on this website, but I just got some very challenging but constructive comments, so I wanted to mark this occasion and thank referee 2.
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What a great start for the UCL Institute for Law Politics and Philosophy today, with a superb paper by Niki Lacey on ‘Criminal Justice and Social (In)justice’. Great job also by
@markedsouza1
as commentator and
@HelenCoverdale
as chair.
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Busy morning - supported the UCU strike and then supported my community by getting the booster.
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Loved teaching my first LLM seminar for this term in Human Rights at Work.
But as I was teaching in a Maths Department seminar room, I felt outside my comfort zone on the way out.
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I came across this piece I wrote as a PhD student on servitude and forced labour in the 2006 LSE Magazine of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights
@conorgearty
.
But the law on the rights of domestic workers in the UK is worse today, 15 years on.
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And here I argue how several UK laws create vulnerability to exploitation and patterns of exploitation that become all the more widespread, standard and routine (happy to share if you don't have access):
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In case anyone needs good news today:
Congratulations to the wonderful Dr Hitesh Dhorajiwala of
@UCLLaws
who successfully defended his PhD thesis today - with
@JohnHendyQC
and
@thebigbogg
as examiners.
Well done Dr
@H_Dhorajiwala
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Many congratulations to everyone on the Law Leverhulme Prize list, including my wonderful colleague Paul Davies,
@RegulatingTime
,
@JeremiasPrassl
and
@NadineElEnany
!
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I just found my name badge from a conference, and wondered when I’ll get to use it again.
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On the 22nd of February we have a workshop on ‘Zero-Hour Contracts and Labour Law’ at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (where I’ll be Visiting Professor). Join us.
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One of the many sad things. I went to Lyon, France, as an Erasmus student, made friends from all over Europe and learned a lot. It opened my mind.
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On a very grim day in British politics, join us in Oxford to hear about the great new book by
@ma_jovanovic
, 'State Responsibility for Modern Slavery in Human Rights Law'.
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We just launched a new page for the UCL Legal Studies Research Paper Series
@ucllaws
. It can be browsed through this link:
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Working on a zero-hours contract during the day and homeless at night.
1 in every 59 people are homeless in London, the 4th richest city in the world, in a country where 50% of the land in the country is owned by 1% of the population and only around 1.1% of the total landmass is used for homes.
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I just posted on SSRN my article 'Welfare to Work, Structural Injustice and Human Rights', which was published in the Modern Law Review in 2020. It's freely available here:
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I just uploaded on SSRN the paper:
'Does Labour Law Need Philosophical Foundations?' (co-authored with Hugh Collins and Gillian Lester). It is the introductory chapter of the book Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law, OUP, 2018
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On 3rd and 4th of July I am hosting a workshop
@UCLLaws
on the ‘Labour and Social Security Rights of Working Prisoners in Europe’.
Outstanding speakers are exploring new territory. Looking forward to discussions.
Many thanks to
@UCL_Global
&
@ModernLRev
for generous funding.
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Next week I’m giving oral evidence in Parliament to the Joint Committee on Human Rights for their inquiry on ‘Human Rights at Work’.
Much looking forward to discussing issues of workers’ rights as part of a fantastic panel.
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Excited to announce our UCL Law, Politics and Philosophy line up for 2021-22
@UCLLaws
. Our brilliant line up:
Sally Haslanger,
@matt_matravers
, Justice Tankebe,
Sarah Song,
@lea_ypi
,
@DrSJFine
and Amanda Greene.
More details here:
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I look forward to our book launch tonight
@ucllaws
:
Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law | UCL Faculty of Laws - UCL - London's Global University
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Last summer, against a background of school closures and their effects, a group of us from the Modern Law Review committee held an 'Information session for female academics on Publishing in the MLR'.
It's available here if you'd like to watch it:
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This Monday, 27th of March, at 5pm we have a seminar on my mew book on Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights
@LSELaw
- with Hugh Collins, Nicola Lacey and Anne Phillips as speakers, and Tom Poole as chair.
Join us. Details here:
The first copies of my book on Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights are here!
Official publication date is the 10th of March but the book can be pre-ordered on the
@OUPLaw
website. I’ll share discount codes soon.
#WorldBookDay
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I co-authored with George Letsas a new piece for the UK Labour Law Blog on 'Censoring Gary Lineker'.
We examine the extent to which the BBC can set limitations to free speech for social media activity.
Great to see that
@GaryLineker
is back on MOTD!
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Gig workers’ rights and their strategic litigation - by Aude Cefaliello and Nicola Countouris
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Very much looking forward to this online event on my book on Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights - organised at EUI next week.
Registration link below.
On Monday we will welcome
@vmantouvalou
for an online discussion on her wonderful book 'Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights'. Register here
@ConstPol
@FRWG_EUI
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I co-authored this piece with
@nataliesedacca
.
It’s on the human rights of domestic workers (equality, dignity and social security).
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In June 2020 a group of us from the editorial committee of the
@ModernLRev
conducted an information session for female academics on publishing in the MLR - with
@TatianaCutts
@VMunro_Law
@conorgearty
& others not on twitter.
It is available here
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I wrote this piece on ‘Unpaid Work Requirements of Offenders: Rehabilitation or Exploitation?’ for the
@labour_blog
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A new article by
@joe_r_atkinson
was just published in the Industrial Law Journal:
Implied Terms and Human Rights in the Contract of Employment
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This made me laugh - from David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs.
A Spanish civil servant didn’t turn up to work for years, and it was only noticed when they were going to give him a medal for long service.
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Very happy to have received the new book of Grainne de Burca. It includes case studies on the important role of human rights law and human rights activism for positive social change.
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Check out this thorough and comprehensive book on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. I have a chapter on the right to work with
@elenifrantziou
Congratulations to the editors.
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Four hours Employment Law tutorials on Zoom today, which were very enjoyable. Great to see the students and discuss the purpose of labour law.
Zoom worked well and breakout rooms were really good. No disaster with technology.
Thanks
@mikarv
for showing me how to do it!
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Preparing to talk about 'Criminality at Work' at a labour law conference (LLRN) on Monday - a brilliant book co-edited by
@thebigbogg
J Collins, J Herring and M Freedland - a must read for anyone interested in the role of criminal law for workers' rights.
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The ECHR office just published an updated version of its case law guide on prisoners' rights, which is always really helpful.
Perfect timing as I'm finalising a paper on the human rights of working prisoners.
Updated version of the Thematic Case-law Guide on "Prisoners' rights" is available in English
#ECHR
#CEDH
#ECHRpublication
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For the (very early) morning twitter crowd:
Alan Bogg
@thebigbogg
and I launched a new book series in 'Law and Social Justice' with
@Policypress
@BrisUniPress
. Please see details below and get in touch.
I am delighted to announce a new project on which I've been working as co-editor with my brilliant colleague
@thebigbogg
.
Today we are launching a new book series in 'Law and Social Justice' with
@BrisUniPress
.
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Here is another great session of the UCL Law, Politics and Philosophy Institute coming up on 18 May.
‘Philosophy of Work’ by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Join us:
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I wrote this for Verfassungsblog on ‘Brexit, Labour Shortages and Structures of ExploitatIon’.
Post-Brexit, the UK government is struggling to plug its predictable labour shortages.
@vmantouvalou
of
@UCLLaws
unravels the current proposals - to use prison labour & temporary migrant workers - & explains how these entrench structural exploitation.
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The new issue of
@EuropeanLawOpen
has a great symposium on law and precarious work, edited by
@bogoeskiv
and
@CescoCost
.
I have a short piece on the UK Seasonal Worker Visa. I argue that the scheme creates structures of exploitation.
It's available here
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No better way to illustrate structural injustice at work.
People in secure, standard employment contracts enjoy many rights which people in precarious work do not have.
A sad day for labour rights of precarious workers following the Deliveroo judgment of the UK Supreme Court.
1/2 My colleagues
@vmantouvalou
@colmocinneide
and I regularly substitute each other, if kids are unwell, with conferences, etc.
Sometimes we've even asked other friends (all legal authorities, mind you) to come to the rescue.
Uni employers accept that to avoid rescheduling
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I look forward to participating in the Writing School organised by ICON for early career scholars.
Great work
@SRanchordas
and
@stefano_osella
⭕️📌📣Check out the preliminary program for the first edition of ICON-S Writing School 📇
🤩🔝Confirmed scholars include:
@SRanchordas
,
@stefano_osella
,
@vmantouvalou
,
@Neo_Jaclyn
,
@efieldingd
,
@AtreyShreya
,
@vanessa_macd
, Gráinne de Búrca, Lynette Chua & Joseph H.H. Weiler
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